Long day at work. Crawl in early, but leave early too..around 4:30pm. Drive back home..pick up groceries mid way...answer a few phone calls...mind still partially occupied with the office. Scurry up the steps to the library. Hmmm....long time since i read Vikram Seth. And whats that! A transaltion of Sivasankari...hmm.. Will probably settle for John Updike now. Must catch the Branson autobiog sometime....saunter back to the car still sorting out if Sivasnkari should be read in Tamil or translation.
Traffic jams...so take the internal detour. Heart rejoices at seeing vacation spirit in full swing. Kids of all ages ...cricket in the middle of the street along with skating, badminton, cycling.. a few 'older' ones exchanging ten rupees at a shop for ben ten cheetos and bumbaaloos.
Ah, the final turn towards my home appears. I 'wake' up with a start....where are my kids? what would they be upto? how will the home look? At its best its a zoo of stuffed animals or a car showroom. At its worst its a tsunami town, with powdered Marie bicuits to guise the ruins. Monopoly? Sand Craft? Play Doh? Oh NNNNNOO!
If S is IN the pool, what about V? Will they be doing some stupid acts of bravado in water? i hate the game they play called Life Saver...Perhaps V would be at her friends place. Will they be nice and playing doll-doll? Would they have scratched each other, and made a scene? May be they would all be rolling in the sand. Maybe they would be having a nice game of cricket. May be cycling...a few bruises.
How are their grandparents through all this.Should i be prepared to see them ready to leave by the next possible means of transport to Chennai?
Reality always dawns only at the last turn home.
6 comments:
airspy! hey...
hmmm...kids, eh?
have you started a summer camp yet?
what? You are running a summer camp? Is boarding lodging included? Can I send mine?
You may not believe it, i ACTUALLY run a summer camp of sorts. Around 13 kids converge into my terrace around 7:30pm each night and I end up having fun making them do assigments (topics like ELECTIONS, AVIATION etc), speaking on stuff like 'if my school were on the moon' and they enjoy it so much they want it on weekends too.
kbpm, boarding is included for outstation candidates.
:)
i also want to speak about school on moon.
You are most welcome to be the guest speaker. And clarify on why the school will function even on Amavasya.
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